Roger Bernat / FFF

In 1979, after two and a half years of self-management, the workers at the Numax electrical appliance factory in Barcelona decide to leave the company and join the unemployed. Thirty-two years later, in 2013, the Basque electrical appliance cooperative Fagor closes its doors, leaving its employees in the street. Like those that perform re-enactments of the battle of Waterloo, the employees of Fagor reconstruct the history of the Numax workers.

Rather than the charismatic reinterpretation for our context of a battle won or lost, Numax-Fagor-plus is the collectivisation of a discourse, the development of a battle that clearly never ended. The discourse still belongs to everyone, and yet when we go to chant words of protest, we realise that we cannot remember them. It is the words that remind us.

Helena Febrés, distribution/production • febres@rogerbernat.info
www.rogerbernat.info

Production: Elèctrica Produccions 
Co-production: KunstenFestivalDesArts (Brussels) • Festival Grec (Barcelona). 
Prior version of the show: co-producers: FRAC Basse Normandie (Caen) • Temporada Alta (Girona). 

Author: Roger Bernat 
Performer: different at each performance
Performance is based on the film Numax, présenta (1980) by Joaquim Jordà, 
In collaboration with the former workers of  Numax and the film crew 
Collaboration platform of partners and associates of Fagor, Ahots Kooperatibista and Mondraberri
Playwright: Roberto Fratini 
Historical research: Pablo González Morandi 
Display: Matteo Sisti
Sound Designer: Cristóbal Saavedra Vial 
Technical Director Txalo Toloza 
Acknowledgments: Jordi Colomer, Carolina Olivares, Noe Laviana